Etymology

acorned

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Today it means: Furnished or loaded with acorns. Full definition →

English acorn ← Middle English acorn ← Old English æcern
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ógr̥der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*akraną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*akarn
  4. Old Englishæcern
  5. Middle Englishcorninflu.
  6. Middle Englishacorn
  7. Englishacorn
  8. English todayacorned

From acorn + -ed.

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